Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2016-04-03

15:00 Carl Metropolitan Welcome to Q&A with the Deans. This weekly event is one part open staff meeting, one part feedback, and one part actual Q&A. We usually start with brief reports from the areas under various deans.
15:01 Carl Metropolitan My report: Due to RL work and RL illness I've gotten very little done. So I will move on to Brace.
15:01 Brace Coral eek!
15:01 Brace Coral well I've made some progress on your request for a monthly fundraiser event
15:02 Brace Coral 1 hour of salsa music and dancing and GOING BROKE for COU! kicks off:
15:02 Carl Metropolitan When?
15:02 Brace Coral Weds 4/6/16 7pm SLT
15:02 Carl Metropolitan Wonderful.
15:02 Brace Coral 1st Weds of every month
15:03 Brace Coral thanks to Andrea I have a most FABU location! It's gonna ROCK!
15:03 Brace Coral notices will be sent out etc
15:03 Brace Coral dress code: come as you are :)
15:03 Carl Metropolitan Would it be okay to add schedule fundraising events like the Salsa and the event Andrea ran last night to the calendar Wordsmith
15:03 Brace Coral or get Caliente!
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Send me announcement info Brace and I'll paste it onto the schedule image (we have another class then on the schedule)
15:03 Brace Coral yeah I totally spaced on getting you that. Will do :)
15:04 Brace Coral And other than kidnapping Carl for some more uhhh "training" that's about it (prolly forgot stuff)
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Feel free to Skype me an annoy me about it, Brace
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen One way or the other, yes Carl. If we have another class at that time, I can't put it on the schedule normally, but I can paste it into a Blank spot on the image.
15:05 Brace Coral soon as I fix my dang Skype I WILL :)
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just a note. Caledonian Nights was happy to provide the land. The event was run by stereo Nacht
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I believe ms Brace helped as well
15:05 Brace Coral high fives Andrea!
15:05 Brace Coral !!W0ot WoOt!!
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Stero Nacht is thanked, as well as Andrea Jones, and Brace Coral. That spring dance yesterday raised just under 5000L$
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Thanks to all of you!
15:06 Brace Coral .•*♥¨`• Applause•¨`♥*•.
15:06 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Wowser. Great work, people!
15:06 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Yay!
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen That supports professor stipends for 20 class hours, BTW.
15:07 Brace Coral excellent :)
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen which in part supports class creation and uploads.
15:08 Brace Coral Good job!!! XD
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen (and I don't want anyone feeling that they can't create a class because of upload costs)
15:10 Carl Metropolitan Yes. We can pay for that. Of you can email the slides/posters/photos to me and I will upload them for you.
15:10 Brace Coral this is such a supportive org :)
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, Yeah. (profound dean comment)
15:11 Brace Coral I forgot to mention, that I was done with my report :)
15:11 Brace Coral sips from her HUGE cuppa coffee
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Phyrnne, your microphone :)
15:12 Brace Coral hiccups ;)
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne?
15:12 Phrynne We've had increased numbers of visitors because of spring break, but things have gone relatively smoothly. Tasha has been on vacation the past week, but is back now
15:12 Brace Coral Yay!
15:13 Phrynne I've been helping on the plaza, and coordinating the gathering of spring and Easter and Caledon rabbits and merbunnies that had a meeting all day April 1, after visiting for several days
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Has the number of griefers been going up, with the spring break? From reading your and Larky's reports it seems that it has been bad the last two weeks.
15:13 Phrynne And I've been working on drafting notecards about the changes in the TOS that were discussed last week --- concerning the ages of people coming into Second Life -- and approaches that staff can take to deal with things.
15:14 Phrynne It has been higher than usual, Carl, but not unexpected for spring break
15:14 Phrynne Let's say that most of those causing trouble are inept rather than practiced.
15:14 Phrynne We have not had any major incidents, just a bunch of people who wish they were major.
15:15 Phrynne (They're not that important.)
15:15 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) As Geo would say, "griefails"?
15:15 Phrynne Annoyances, mostly.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or wished that RL had entertained them better and arrived a bit disgruntled here.
15:15 Phrynne es
15:15 Phrynne *yes.
15:15 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) may i just say though phrynne your rection times to one of the cases was highly commendable
15:16 Phrynne thank you
15:16 Phrynne and that's all I have for now
15:17 Brace Coral Good job!!! XD
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl, any announcements of upcoming events for Oxbridge or reports?
15:18 Carl Metropolitan Not currently.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan "Coming Up: Carl Metropolitan goes and hides under his covers in a dark room"
15:20 Phrynne hands Carl an eyeshade
15:20 Carl Metropolitan The light; it hurts us. It does.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've been limited by RL allergy season, so less than I'd hope for, but did get the admin page on the website, and the description of the Q&A up to date. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/admin.php
15:20 Carl Metropolitan Though I would suggest that Andrea take a moment and promote her upcoming superhero dance.
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) nods ty
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Also figured out what I'd done to knock the images off of the Quest page. Those are back.
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) just a reminder that the Superhero dance from last week was rescheduled to this Tues night at 6 Pm Slt. DJ Rock lost family member and did not want the dance delayed another week. DJ Cynthia Farshore will be spinning the tunes for us this coming tues night. Everyone is invited and please come as you are, or themed.
15:21 Brace Coral Awesome!! My costume is ready :)
15:21 Carl Metropolitan One note; any former dean can use the "Dean Emeritus" title. It is just Larky is both a Dean Emeritus and still helping (a lot) here.
15:21 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) as is mine heehee
15:21 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) is wearing mine :D
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Type casting for Brace. ;)
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There will be a villian or 2 inthe mix
15:22 Phrynne is still considering hers
15:22 Brace Coral hahahaa
15:22 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) heehee *looks guiltily*
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I am sure there will be others
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) :-)
15:23 Brace Coral Yall have NO idea: https://my.secondlife.com/brace.coral/snapshots/56fb2833e85cda32df000001
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) .lol
15:23 Brace Coral ;)
15:24 Phrynne oh, my!
15:24 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) lookin fab
15:24 Brace Coral toldya
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Got your lasso of truth, Brace?
15:24 Brace Coral I sure do!
15:24 Brace Coral hehehe
15:24 Carl Metropolitan There are a lot of superhero RPers (and fetishists) in SL, so there are tons of costumes that you can find on Marketplace or in World.
15:24 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) or come as a secret identity
15:24 Brace Coral that was an oldie but goodie by Simone
15:25 Gronk Seriman angrily scratches Wonder Woman off her list....
15:25 Brace Coral Gronk! WW has SISTERS so bring it on :)
15:25 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i saw yours gronk, your set
15:25 Brace Coral a whole tribe of Amazons
15:25 Gronk Seriman That was too good. I could never compete.
15:25 Carl Metropolitan Go as Wonder Girl/Troia or Artemis from the comics.
15:25 Brace Coral aww darn
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) How avout original amazons with missing... bosoms?
15:26 Brace Coral that was a myth you know
15:26 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) i'm good at using alphas that way
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:26 Carl Metropolitan Or just go in a different Wonder Woman costume. One that's closer to the comic books, or the new movie.
15:26 Brace Coral freshens up her coffee and sips... only hiccuping twice
15:26 Jorge Serapis bosoms. Call them what they really are. Winnebagoes.
15:26 Brace Coral yup: theres sooo many versions of Wonder Woman
15:27 Jorge Serapis *waits to be orbited*
15:27 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) ""giggles""
15:27 Phrynne *considers how high*
15:27 Brace Coral LMAO
15:27 Phrynne :)
15:27 Brace Coral votes for reeeely high
15:27 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Let's move on to questions from the audience. We can answer questions about Oxbridge, Second Life, and anything we can think of. I'm decent at trivia myself
15:27 Gronk Seriman I have a really nice X-Men Storm ready anyways.
15:28 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I see insilico is back.
15:28 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I heard it changed hands
15:28 Brace Coral yayyy Gronk :))
15:29 Brace Coral I'm still accepting all kinds of cookies
15:29 Brace Coral and pizza slices :)
15:29 Gronk Seriman Wordsmith, when should we start planning the ribbon cutting for CATs? We need pomp and circumstance!
15:29 Brace Coral with confetti! and stuff
15:30 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) and moderate human sacrifices
15:30 Brace Coral grins at Row :D
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'd guess end of this month. Taxes are going to eat this next week. So I'll push for May Day.
15:30 Phrynne Moderately human or moderate size?
15:30 Carl Metropolitan LL apparently conducted a purge of people selling "beyond Adult" content on the Marketplace. At the same time some other people were shown the door and that has led to a lot of confusion about why people were banned.
15:30 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) i vote the next griefer
15:30 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehehe either way is good
15:31 Jorge Serapis A big red button that Des can push with a sign that lights up saying "BACK IN BUSINESS!" and they all fly off at the same time.
15:31 Brace Coral I always said, you can't mix 13 and 30 year olds - that's the reason I left Active Worlds for SL
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sacrifice moderate humans? That's too close to RL.
15:32 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) is sure that the kraken will be happy to see the CAT's return to Middlesea
15:32 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) when people went to ghe Gulag they were a bit uncertain as to why, too
15:32 Brace Coral fast forward 12 years and here we are
15:32 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) good theing the CAT is made of protective metal
15:33 Carl Metropolitan Well, the 13 to 18 year olds are restricted to G-rated sims
15:34 Carl Metropolitan I think that the staff at Oxbridge maintain an appropriate environment for 13 and up.
15:34 Gronk Seriman We try!
15:35 Carl Metropolitan But if it does become a problem for the staff (due to too much work, spurious Abuse Reports, etc.) we have the option of going to a Mature rating. We are not beholden to any LL "gateway" rules (whatever they are this week).
15:35 Brace Coral breathes a sigh of relief
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen And little that wouldn't be encountered in RL.
15:35 Phrynne So far, in the last week, we have had one bored 9-year-old, who got tired of figuring out clothes and left, and one enthusiastic and friendly 14-year-old, who is a delight.
15:36 Brace Coral nice :)
15:36 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) ^-^
15:36 Phrynne So, figuring out how to cope with ordinary SL things like clothes may be an inadvertent sorting mechanisnm.
15:36 Brace Coral nods... taking notes
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen While I think of it, Brace, know any potential blog editors?
15:37 Brace Coral eek!
15:37 Brace Coral I'm the one still on Live Journal
15:37 Brace Coral LMAO
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen or anyone else for that matter.
15:38 Brace Coral hehehe
15:38 Brace Coral I can ask around for ya Word :D
15:38 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) what are the qualifications needed?
15:38 Carl Metropolitan That would be a nice thing to start updating again. I can barely update my own blog, and it's too political for Oxbridge.
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I link my Dreamwidth ti Livejournal still
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I wasn't suggest that you personally take that on, but you do have contacts.
15:38 Carl Metropolitan Willingness to do the job, ability to write English?
15:39 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) i can write english
15:39 Brace Coral yep, I am usually yanking yer chain, Wordsmith, but I'll see - I DO know some ppls
15:39 Brace Coral points at Row!
15:39 Brace Coral Good job!!! XD
15:39 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hehe
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Basically, and willingness to edit submissions and maybe add an SL photo or two.
15:39 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) sounds workable
15:40 Brace Coral ok that sounds easy enough, for someone to do
15:40 Brace Coral who isn't wearing eleventy zillion hats *eyes Word* >_<
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen We've got a Wordpress setup already.
15:40 Brace Coral perfect!
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yeah. I can make that stretch without other things suffering.
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Next question?
15:41 Brace Coral Jorge where do you shop?
15:42 Brace Coral because
15:42 Jorge Serapis All over.
15:42 Brace Coral DAAYYUUMMM
15:42 Jorge Serapis For realz.
15:42 Badass Fae (larkylouz) cracks up
15:42 Brace Coral I'll just follow you around then
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) there are many pictures of Jorge on my flicker pages
15:42 Jorge Serapis What? Clothes, furniture?
15:42 Brace Coral :D
15:42 Badass Fae (larkylouz) looks at Jorge and snickers behind her hand
15:42 Brace Coral CLOTHES
15:43 Jorge Serapis I'll drop some links on you in a spell. :_)
15:43 Carl Metropolitan shops only when told to.
15:43 Jorge Serapis Is it true that Deans Emeritus are flammable?
15:43 Jorge Serapis Asking for a fiend.
15:43 Jorge Serapis Friend.
15:43 Jorge Serapis FRIEND.
15:43 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) :-D
15:43 Brace Coral rofllll
15:43 Brace Coral ty Jorge :)
15:43 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I almost never flame anyone. Promise!
15:43 Carl Metropolitan Only the Deans Emeritus not currently helping here.
15:44 Brace Coral muchas gracias
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky is not a moth. No testing candles on her.
15:45 Brace Coral hehehe
15:45 Jorge Serapis Flame thrower?
15:45 Badass Fae (larkylouz) remembers that she has been referred to as a mouth on occasion.
15:46 Badass Fae (larkylouz) surrounds Jorge with sweet little pink butterflies. LOTS of them
15:46 Carl Metropolitan Please feel free to ask any questions. Do not let our attempts at clever banter make you feel that you can't interrupt. We just do this to fill awkward silences.
15:47 Brace Coral did clever banter! wooHOO! :D
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen And as incentive to ask questions to prevent bad puns, etc.
15:47 Badass Fae (larkylouz) wonders what this crowd knows about PREVENTING bad puns????
15:47 Jorge Serapis *raises Larky's hand for her*
15:47 Gronk Seriman Bad buns? Why I otter!
15:48 Badass Fae (larkylouz) invites Gronk to go find a slippery slide for us to otter on.
15:48 Phrynne This is, by the way, an updated mesh version of the Alternate Lecture Hall. I was here the other day when Dean Emeritus Ravelli Ormsteain was installing it
15:49 Phrynne It has some new lights, and a rabbit on the arch over the doorway, and some other new features
15:49 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thought the stage looked diferent
15:49 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Woot for Ravelli. Have we done anything formal to thank him for all he's done?
15:49 Brace Coral YAAAAaaAaAAaYYYy
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen And there's now a floor control up here.
15:49 Carl Metropolitan The lighting controls and lighting have also been upgraded.
15:49 Brace Coral been hangin out with Rav
15:49 Gronk Seriman The lighting stinks, though. It's really dark in here now.
15:49 Phrynne I think he is still working on perfecting some of the fine points -- but yes, that was the bells of Big Ben you heard, which will be part of the building.
15:50 Brace Coral I'll have to tell Dove: she was wondering about bells!
15:50 Carl Metropolitan We should name a building after him.
15:50 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Excellent idea.
15:51 Brace Coral I third the motion!
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good, the Class in Session button is still there. It was just buried in the column.
15:51 Carl Metropolitan Lecture hall perhaps? Train station?
15:51 Phrynne This one?
15:52 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) At the very least his image should be prominently displayed
15:52 Brace Coral because "Alternate Lecture Hall" has no ring to it
15:52 Phrynne There are places on the walls for lots of portraits
15:52 Carl Metropolitan We should ask him first. He can be a bit shy about publicity.
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) a statue
15:52 Brace Coral hehehe
15:52 Badass Fae (larkylouz) He's been a teddie bear every time I've seen him recently
15:52 Brace Coral statue be so cute tho!
15:52 Brace Coral nods at Larkyy
15:52 Gronk Seriman The Lecture Hall downstairs is magnificent. I nominate that building.
15:52 Jorge Serapis A bronze version of him, like Paddington Bear.
15:52 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Silver teddy bear state? :-)
15:53 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) *statue
15:53 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Oh, well then, a huge teddie bear on the roof of the Lecture Hall! (apologies to Ravelli)
15:53 Phrynne With a bowler hat!
15:53 Phrynne must have the hat.
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and scarf
15:53 Brace Coral hat and scarf for sure!
15:53 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I like that idea, Jorge. Like the metallic bunnehs Phrynne has been using. Those are rich enough to be honorary
15:54 Jorge Serapis how many LI are those statues, dean Phrynne?
15:54 Phrynne took less-notable bunnehs and colored them, because the brown didn't show up against the grass in Oxbridge
15:54 Phrynne They're 1 or 2 LI each
15:54 Brace Coral bunnehs!
15:54 Brace Coral I love those :)
15:55 Jorge Serapis I'm wondering maybe a plaqued pedestal with one of them on top to commemorate people, perhaps?
15:55 Phrynne I tinkered with the textures to make them more visible.
15:55 Phrynne but I did not make them, if that makes a difference; they were from Marketplace
15:57 Jorge Serapis https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Paddington_Bear_statue,_Paddington_station_in_March_2011_01.jpg
15:57 Phrynne They may also be inworld; I can check on that.
15:58 Brace Coral awwww Paddington :)
15:59 Carl Metropolitan Thank you all for coming today
15:59 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I have absolutely no problem with honoring Ravelli. My concern is that there are others we should honor, too. Martini being high on my list. And I suspect there were others before my time.
16:00 Carl Metropolitan There are
16:00 Brace Coral yes
16:00 Carl Metropolitan Fogwoman for one
16:00 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Just something to keep in mind
16:00 Brace Coral the bells!!
16:00 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Portraits?
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just a note. There was something said this morning in the plaza. And just to be clear. There is no COU Intelligence Agency. The agency does not exist.
16:00 Gronk Seriman I heard 'em!
16:00 Brace Coral its 4pm bonggg bonggg
16:00 Phrynne No such agency. Got it.
16:00 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) for whom do they toll
16:00 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I could start one!
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) It does not report to carl
16:00 Brace Coral in COUIA - CIA.... okayyy
16:00 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) lol
16:01 Brace Coral winks and nods and scribbles notes!
16:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Nor there is COU stupidity agency, trolls do it themselves..
16:01 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) No Thirteenth Directorate ?
16:01 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Foggy's tribute would need to be...deadly.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen The Bells: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells
16:01 Brace Coral ty Wordsmith :)
16:01 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Just sayin' :D
16:01 Brace Coral was just thinkin on that
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) That person this morning does not work for any organization
16:01 Gronk Seriman And who whomever turned on the lights. thank you!
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen The lack of such an agency does not indicate the lack of intelligence, however.
16:02 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Would say your welcome. not sure i am supposed to be able to do that
16:02 Brace Coral raises her cuppa coffee in a suspiciously tipsy manner and toasts everyone in the Hall :)
16:02 Brace Coral Thank You!
16:02 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) no organs of sim security.....
16:02 Phrynne wonders about pipe organs of sim security
16:03 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) hey!
16:03 Badass Fae (larkylouz) G'night all. thanks for all the work and energy for COU
16:03 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) pipe down~
16:03 Jorge Serapis *woonders why the stage lights aren't taking advantage of projector technolopgy*
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming. Transcripts likely up later today.
16:03 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Nighters everyone :D
16:03 Gronk Seriman They always seem tyo be playing Beethove3n's Fifth.
16:03 Brace Coral I wondered what you were sitting on, Phrynne!
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen or drinking it.
16:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night mr skysmith
16:03 Brace Coral a pretty flowah :D
16:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Okay, trying to get some sleep
16:04 Phrynne SL wouldn't let me rez a chair, Brace
16:04 Phrynne or anything.
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) EMphasis still on "trying"...
16:04 Phrynne it was a bit odd
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you